Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

So fixed are our spirits in slothfulness and cold indifference that we seldom overcome so much as one evil habit.

Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.